How to Choose an FTP Program

Video Transcript

"With broadband speeds increasing, people are wanting to transfer files more and more these days. And to do that most people are using FT programs. Hi, I'm Charles Stewart Jr and I'm going to give you some information to help you choose a file transfer protocol program. First if you're working on a Windows computer, there's a lot of options out there. You can pay for some of the options but, a lot of people like free stuff, and a good program would be Filezilla. It's very robust, it lets you do a lot of stuff. Comparable to a lot of the same programs you'd pay for, it also offers levels of security and you know, and just to give you an overview of what FTP is, basically, it lets your computer talk to another computer most likely a server, and allows you to talk to it and upload your files to that server, and so it's like an interface for that. So on the Windows side you definitely want to use a program like Filezilla, and it's free so you can get in there and play with it and it's pretty easy to use. Now on the Mac side they've got a program called Cyberduck and Cyberduck is exactly the same thing as Filezilla. It's a free program, except that this one's designed for the OS X for the Mac, and it's really easy to use, same thing, you you know, you get an FTP site, you know the FTP and then whatever address that they give you, and then you could upload or retrieve files from there using this software. And that's pretty much it for choosing an FTP program."